perfect topic here jonathan turley. the preemptive imparted we know it has been used we can all do the research. it was used once pretty much a by washington and situation. it was used by ford in a very unusual situation for ease by carter in an unusual situation. that's pretty much about it. preemptive pardons for political friends political allies or people like this that's biden's staff and say we ought to also give want to trump to you smell a rat here, don't you? >> i do part f prefer saul a par trump would be the most hostile pardon ever issued trump does not meet a part in the case is against him have collapsed. even though they were not dismissed with prejudice it is extremely unlikely they could ever be resuscitated and so to give him a pardon for effectively dead federal cases would be to send this message he is still at risk. it would fulfill the narrative but the fact is he is not at risk in those cases it would not have any impact on the state cases where he still has some on going litigation. but those cas

ckone truly great law professora jonathan turley, and has writtel a fantastic book.ole out, and age of rage. perfect topic, jonathan turley. you wrote a piece called pardon envy and preemptive party. we know it hasse been used. we can all do the research. it was used by washington in an unusual situation. it was used by ford in thecart unusual situation. it wasnusu used by carter in an unusual situation. it. that is pretty much about it. preemptive pardons for political allies or people like this and then for his people that biden staff said they also ought to give one to trump. you smell a rat year, don't you? first of all a biden pour trumpt heru doesn't need a part compard to the cases against him have collapsed and even though they weren't dismissed with prejudice to go job it extremely unlikely they could beim resuscitated to. so to give them a pardon for effectively dead federal cases would to send this message he would still be at risk and fulfill the narrative.but but the fact is he is not at risk in those cases. it would not have impact on the casestate case

liz: big fan of jonathan turley. we love his writing. brilliant mind of his, thank you so much, mr. turley. merry christmas to you. >> thank you, you too. >> let's start with cutting off illegals getting free everything. free housing. free schooling. free food. yeah, let's start with that. you are going down in history as the worst mayor in america. liz: justifiable and outrage. chicago residents showing why biden's board en crisis is unfair. saying stop spending taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens, stop raising their taxes, to pay for it as they get nothing in return. next, we have that chicago resident. we're excited to talk to danielle carter walters whose going to speak out tonight also this story. >> it's fully my intent. the president's intent to spend every cent we have available. liz: really? a major controversy. trump has to fight lame duck biden racing to spend every dollar he can before trump takes over. we've got massive waste inflationary waste and taxes raised to pay for that, but he's not spending money on victims of hurricane helene? still suffering, literally living i

but jonathan turley, i want to ask you something outright that you've hinted at here. it is this.are dealing with district attorney alvin bragg. there are dealing with somebody who brought an unprecedented case -- those are the words of "the new york times" -- against former president trump. we are dealing with somebody who took jose alba, -year-d man, a convenience store owner who defended himself in lawful self-defense, and putting in rikers island. and then public pressure came and the charges were dropped. we are dealing with someone who is not in the mainstream. with this case have been brought outside of d.c., l.a., or manhattan? >> i have doubts about that, quite frankly. his predecessor didn't want to bring the first trump case. bragg has created this impression of someone who is falling more cable news than the criminal code. this is a case that i think shows that. there is prosecutorial discretion that is supposed to kick in in cases like this. a prosecutor should look at this and say, look, this is someone trying to protect other people. he was responding to his trainin

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joining us now, jonathan turley, law professor at george washington university and fox news contributor wise politically or not for donald trump to say, do the january 6th have anything to worry about legally? >> probably not. they have a great deal of protections under the constitution. i say that as one of the loudest critics of the j6 committee -- howard: right. you thought it was totally one-sided. >> i agree with the president that it was unethical, unprofessional, i thought they were very dishonest. but all of that is handled at the polling places, not in courtrooms. howard: explain why they have this protection, you know, for people not familiar with the constitutional niceties. >> we get so much protections, like the speech and debate. [applause] , the from our english brethren. this idea that we had to protect members of the legislature to allow them the widest berth. that comes at a cost, quite frankly. the j6 committee is that cost. and i but was appalled by what they did and how they did it. i thought they were incredibly dishonest in how they edited the president's words li

failed to tycoon brothers foreign on state charges but they face sex trafficking charges and jonathan turleye they alexander brothers posting bail? >> it is all in the family. tinkering with others multimillion dollar south florida home earlier today. miami judge and agreeing to allow them to await their state trial under house arrest. but they are not out yet. the 37-year-old twins facing charges for a parallel case with concerned alexander is access to cash, pry the boats and aircraft make them a flight risk. and he said he wanted to be released because of a family commitment. listen. >> your honor, my wife is pregnant deal with our first child. she is counting on me to be with her during labor. they arrested the alexander twins on wednesday and accused of raping a woman miami beach condo 2016 in addition to that the twins and older brother also face a federal trial regarding allegations of sex trafficking. back to you. >> sandra: jonathan, thank you. >> certainly. >> we are going to put it straight and give tremendous incentive like no other country has. we will cut taxes substantially. j

jonathan turley joins us now. what was the judge's reasoning. what was he saying? >> well, he really iron plated this decision. he said first of all this was not official conduct but even if it was official conduct it wasn't protected and even if it was protected and some evidence came in that shouldn't have come in, it was all harmless error. you can pick any one of those three and he would still be good to go. that is an opinion that is likely to get support from some people on the appellate level. what is interesting about the opinion is it really contradicts what many in the media have said for months, that the supreme court's decision granted sweeping immunity. that it was a death squad ruling. merchan had no difficulty in finding exceptions that might apply to this case. so i think a lot of judges would probably agree with the outcome. not necessarily all the reasoning of judge merchan. but we'll have to see. there are good faith arguments the trump team made and will make on appeal. >> dana: and the trump spokesperson said the decision is a direct violation

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brand new op-ed jonathan turley says joe biden continue ited legacy of liar in chief as son hunter yearsluence peddling scandal sur rounding his family. david weiss objecting to the motion to dismiss hunter's case that gw law professor jonathan turley heard us talking about him and scrambled to the zoom and joins us now. first off on david weiss saying i don't think we should go ahead and follow through on the pardon we should follow through on the case, your thought? >> i think it's just positively nuts. of course he should dismiss the case. i think it's an effort to try to scrub away the stain of this case for weiss. he was at the center of that sweetheart deal. he wanted to give the bidens precisely what the president just gave in this pardon, a sweeping immunity for not just crimes he was accused of but other unnamed crimes. he is not going to scrub that away. and saying that i would like to stay in this fight a little bit longer is unlikely to impress these judges, you know, this is not hear to redeem yourself. the question is is there a case to be tried. and the answer is no. there

let's bring in constitutional law attorney jonathan turley, fox news contributor.u. whats is your reaction by michael horowitz? >> in some ways it raises more questions than answers. there were no under cover agents in the crowd. for others, there is going to be a lot of concern as to what the sources were doing there. only three of them were told to be there. the question is, really the other people. we have had cases in the past where the defense has argued that sources and agents have been extremely active in pushing people towards criminal conduct. we saw those allegations raised in the michigan case involving the governor there. i think that some defense attorneys may raise the question is why they weren't told if they weren't told, about the confidential sources that might have been involved with their own cases because usually defense counsel says we want to know what asset, what personal the government had there. so there is going to be questions of that kind, that are arising. the treatment of the sources are also going to be a subject of continued debate.

i think justice jonathan turley sounds pretty good to me. maybe even chief justice, i don't know. >> thank you sean. >> sean: on manhunt underway in new york after the ceo of united health care shot dead in what was seemingly a planned attack, assassination. jury deliberations in the daniel penny trial ended without a verdict. can you read into that? for god so loved the world that he gave his only son. so that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. force factor amazing ashwa, reduces stress and anxiety, improves sleep, boosts cognitive health, and supports weight management. why? amazing ashwa contains clinically proven ksm-66 ashwagandha. rush to walmart and find amazing ashwa from force factor. here's something you don't see very often... elves not working and why not? i gave them the day off. thanks to weathertech. with so many gifts for everyone they won't have to work as hard. there's laser measured floorliners and cargo liner. plus the child car seat protector. and cupfone to secure any phone while

want to bring it jonathan turley fox news contributor constitutional law attorney.ht. let's talk about the this could be set in abuse by later presidents and sadly tarnished. your role as president is to put the nation first. here we have a president is putting his family first after promising america he would not do so. >> that is right. this brings to mind the same type of familiar action taken by bill clinton who pardoned his brothers in his final days of office. it also shows a degree of contempt for the american people. not ever speaking to his sons of business associates. never being in meetings with them. but he lied repeatedly to the american people when he was a candidate for reelection. he was asked repeatedly as he was about meeting his son's client. and denied and he has now violated that pledge. >> great, jonathan you are right you pointed out earlier about the sweeping sweetheart deal. the big weekend show will be right back with more breaking news. stay wit advil liqui-gels are faster and stronger than tylenol rapid release gels. ♪ also from advil, ad

said, no, no, he is guilty of killing, it's manslaughter, so there was this point today with jonathan turley and he said if they don't come down with a verdict and this just comes back as a hung jury, they can try again. >> molly: i think this brings us to what emily was talking about, in the season of peace, will we see peace across the city tonight? will there be riots? will they be as you talked about other people, other actors that look at this as a cause that can be put on as theater all across the country. the other question i have about if this offers some sanity, some hope for people riding the subway, will people feel brave enough to step in, will that help make the city more peaceful? and i wonder about daniel penny and his p is for the rest of his life, you know, he has a young former marine who stepped up in one moment and now his face is out there for the rest of his life, and while there are many people that believe he is at the height of heroism there other actors in the city or other places across the nation, so this is something he will be dealing with for the rest of his li

want to bring it jonathan turley fox news contributor constitutional law attorney.athan, great to have you on the show tonight. let's talk about the this could be set in abuse by later presidents and sadly tarnished. your role as president is to put the nation first. here we have a president is putting his family first after promising america he would not do so. >> that is right. this brings to mind the same type of familiar action taken by bill clinton who pardoned his brothers in his final days of office. it also shows a degree of contempt for the american people. not ever speaking to his sons of business associates. never being in meetings with them. but he lied repeatedly to the american people when he was a candidate for reelection. he was asked repeatedly as he was about meeting his son's client. and denied and he has now violated that pledge. >> great, jonathan you are right you pointed out earlier about the sweeping sweetheart deal. the big weekend show will be right back with more breaking news. stay with us. t indigestion iberogast bloating iberogast thank

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. >> and the press constantly talked about the republican witness jonathan turley said.s a republican witness that voted for democrats that is a democrat that sees the world but he's a constitutional expert that was consistent. funny story about the whole time. give us at least one more and he hung up on me. there's nothing criminal that they could point to. and jonathan turley said, if you go through with this especially in the obstruction part, the only people guilty of p obstruction is congress. >> so, doug, in the book the clock and the calendar, one of my favorite quotes is the sort of description that you have for the standard for impeachment. you say, impeachment should never be a threat or a tool to carry out the wishes of a temporary congressional majority against the president they simply do not like and that's really what happened here. what do you think in terms of how they used impeachment, how the democrats used impeachment against donald trump. first and foremost, what brought out that quote from that book was what i had witnessed and it wasn't, it wasn't

. >> ainsley: jonathan turley brought up a good point, he does not need the pardon. >> brian: federal cases dropped. >> ainsley: difference is hunter biden did these crimes. >> lawrence: he confessed to some of them. >> ainsley: many people think donald trump was targeted by democrats and liberal justice department. >> brian: he talks about buying a gun,taking a gun, having bo's wife getting worried and throw it in the trash. to not acknowledge the laptop, shows how impefruous this guy thought he was. doesn't matter, my dad will pardon me. elon musk said now who is above the law? and chief of staff talked about moral clarity of joe biden insisting he would not pardon joe biden and evan osnov talked about his old-school sense of beauty and does not abuse power. >> lawrence: it is not just that, it is the party that talks about privilege all the time and equity. do you think anybody else would have gotten this type of shake out there? i don't understand a person so concerned about his legacy, does he want this to be the legacy? or is he bruised by the democratic party and does not care?

cheryl: quick before you go, jonathan turley calmed out president biden, on a separate issue, all movesof course, being made in last what 25 days i think query at now? writes that biden veto of judges act makes him a craven partner not a framer as he has claimed. >> i think exactly right, president biden was actually calling for this bill to be passed, several you know just a year ago i think so here we are because of the timing when it passed, democrat senate a republican house, and he vetoed it case he doesn't want to give help to the next administration, despite the fact we need judges we need federal judges, he veetsdz for the poourl political reasons i any what is who he is despite what he says a partisan hack. >> three judges that democratic judges, no longer retiring, because they don't want to open their spot, it is -- >> political, thank you for being here we look forward to all the work you are going to do in the 119th congress. >> thanks, cheryl. cheryl: a lot more, markets seeing double-digit gains with a few days left in 2024, three to be clear looking to markets in new yea

but you have people like jonathan turley, a legal expert who appears prominently on conservative channels coming out saying that liz cheney is protected by her status as a member of congress. so i think it allows joe biden to do the work that he needs to do to preserve what will be his legacy and hopefully not the pardon of his son, which violated all he said about it during the election, but the sort of policy things he did during his presidency.>> one thing joe biden wants to get done and he has his team working on it is a cease-fire deal for gaza. we heard national security advisor jake sullivan say it's close. we've heard that before. but if this gets done, what would it mean for joe biden's legacy? >> we will not know what his legacy is. i think one thing is certain. it's not going to be as bad as a lot of the naysayers would have us believe at this moment. it always takes time. having worked for george w. bush , who was very unpopular when he left office because of the economic wreckage that we saw in 2008. now he's looked at much differently as president in the pantheon of the u.s.

he went to the replay and keeps it even though everything was done, that is not immune and as jonathan turleytwork called fox news channel, for those who say the president has absolute immunity can order the assassination of an american citizen now after the supreme court decision, doesn't move, the judge doesn't believe that in new york but doesn't it underline the lack of faith in the city after justice system, the civil trial which is a sham, she couldn't name of the year and take the president's wealth away when there's no plaintiff except letitia james ran on the fact that trump is a corrupt businessperson and pay $450 million and in this case which was so bad it propelled donald trump to a primary win and the presidency. keep it up, new york, you are a big help. stuart: talking about the live-action presidency and the change in the mood in the country since trump was elected. much more positive mood, that's the way i see it. how about you? brian: i had a chance to do a lot of traveling. i went to the army/navy game and the giant game. what i am trying to bring up his i like football and

. >> john: you and jonathan turley are in the same restaurant as well. >> the biden administration isiew of the most free-speech administration since the admin administration. and has helped find this massive censorship system that a federal court called perfectly orwellian. >> john: third company when it comes to your opinions, miss mollie. thank you for joining us, sandra. >> back when i knew him, he was nice, polite, driven, athletic. he had everything going for him in everything you would want in a high school kid. >> sandra: we are learning brand-new details suspect of the murder of united health care ceo, brian thompson and what we are learning. >> john: battling wildfire malibu, california, and senior national correspondent william la jeunesse with an update. >> malibu is not out of the wedge at but a lot better weather and water dropping planes and helicopters has people feeling the worst ism! people feeling the worst ism! over s. more on the fire coming up. choose any medical provider and pay them directly, then submit the bill and get reimbursed. that sounds incredible. chm

constitutional law professor jonathan turley says this. there's a question of why the confidential human sources who enter the capital were not charged as part of an operation that the justice department described as an effort to shock and all targeting everyone involved that day. this report does not find specific wrongdoing or direction from confidential human sources. congress is likely to seek more information on these sources and their conduct on the day. are you allowed to commit crimes as a spy for the fbi and not get charged? because they said this was the greatest attack on democracy ever. said it was up there with 9/11. traders they said, they are off scot-free. you can try to overthrow the government if you're an fbi right and just walk away? congress has to find out. and what does this mean for pardons? the hunter biden pardon already grease the one way for trump this reports, all the most trump needs needs. he told "time" magazine it's going to start in the first hour. may be the first 9 minutes. if i were president i don't th

. >> john: jonathan turley said this. >> we are waiting for him to reach these decisions so we can havetly an appeal! so he's got a number of objections how he handled the trial. some of us believe that trial riddled with reversible error. he is unlikely to find he committed those errors. >> john: is it a reversible error? >> it is a reversible error. the other thing that is scary about this is judge merchan in essence is saying, he is willing to hold this case over a sitting president for four years. imagine a judge, what he can do when he can order and order in a time in that case while the president is in office. >> john: i was wondering if he would go through suspended and tends to clear the books. but at the moment he is perfectly willing to let it ride until 2029. that is a long time from now. i was at al smith in october and eric adams was there with donald trump, the keynote speaker. trump was talking about eric adams and his legal troubles, but also suggesting in the end, he will be okay. which prompted folks yesterday to see if he would pardon eric adams. listen. >> would you

. >> sandra: okay, that is the news and jonathan turley from constitutional law and fox news contributornathan, you caught my eye reacting to twitter on the news. what are you thinking about what we learned and all played out with employee local mcdonald's saying, hey, that is the guide. >> they were so many things to learn about the suspect including what more evidence and the evidence they listed is quite compelling. in various cases we have looked at in the past that you have people who hold on to articles of the crime as often the case with rail kill types of cases where they become almost trophi. this is someone who obviously highly intelligent and he may have been too clever for his own good. he kept evidence on him. he didn't seem to want to part from it. we don't know much about his background except nypd said he has anticorporate attitude. some other sites say he is anticapitalist. we don't know if he is associated with groups like antifa in and torque tests or capitalists and that will play out as we go down the road appeared to one of the contentse backpack and what we do know

jonathan turley is with us now. ow how much of the briefing you got to hear and the reasons that karine jean-pierre was giving for president biden doing a 180 on the lies he has told the american public. so many months now but what do you make of this whole thing? >> well, it is an extraordinary thing to watch peer until you have a person who spent so many press conferences the eminent re to nine and pardon was going toe considered. but what the press corps has not pressed her on is that fact networks reporting these discussions have been ongoing since as early as june. so these denials are being made and while at the president said he would not considering it he was considering it in the president was lying. and of course, any time a politician lies to the public, he says, "i change my mind." this is not the type of thing you change circumstances like what is being cited peer into the being made by karine jean-pierre. we have looked at who he appointed and there is a sentencing coming up. all of those factors were w

jonathan turley had something to say about this, trump's team asking a georgia appeals court to throwt. >> this entire case is leaking like a sieve and always has. based on a ridiculous rico theory to get to the president. on top of that you have willis's own conduct and whether she should be removed from the case. a big debate what will bring this case down. i can't see if she was able to secure a conviction that she would be able to sustain it on ap appeal. >> harris: she is stuck in a sticky wicket. if they turns over records they would think there was a conspiracy against her and jack smith against donald trump. >> say it ain't so. you can't imagine that would be happening, could you? listen, the truth is this. we know there was. we've seen white house records that show that a lot of these d.a.s and a.g.s were visiting the white house and coordinating with jack smith and also the white house administration. unacceptable. political motivation and selective constitution. we don't do them in this country. my message is the same for fani, you have embarrassed yourself was a enough. th

the law and this cements joe biden's record of shame and failure, constitutional law attorney jonathan turleyith this. >> he is pardoning his son for any crime he may have committed during these years. everything from money laundering to murder. this sweeps into offenses that have been alleged not just against hunter biden, but implicated the president himself. so he is also a beneficiary from this pardon. >> harris: senior national correspondent rich edson and i were talking about this yesterday. the benefit for joe biden are endless here maybe. the white house, you are there, tell us more. >> good morning, harris. well, president biden maintains that his son was unfairly and selectively prosecuted. special counsel in charge of those prosecutions david weiss is responding to that in a court filing he says there never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case. brand-new pardon hunter and his attorneys argue the indictments against him, gun charges in delaware and tax charges should be di missed. they maintain because no judgment has been or will be entered in t

i want to bring in jonathan turley, fox news contributor, constitutional law attorney and george washingtoniversity law professor. jonathan, before we get into what comes next in all of this, just your initial reaction. this was fairly quick. >> it was quick and it was not entirely expected because this is not obviously how district attorney bragg had planned this. the way the case was going was along the sort of design that bragg had to force a compromise verdict. when the jury deadlocked over the more serious crime, the judge went ahead and allowed them to consider this lesser offense. that is basically what bragg had hoped thatconviction on the mor crime, which was unlikely, that they would compromise and convict him on the lesser offense which still came with a potential penalty of four years. so i think the most surprised person in that room may be alvin bragg. because you have a jury that apparently couldn't agree on the more serious offense but came back and said but we do agree he is not guilty of the lesser offense. so it is not exactly how this was supposed to play out in his view

in fact, constitutional law professor and fox news contributor jonathan turley agrees with you.ch administration if -- anti-free speech addles managers since the adams administration. it has helped fund this massive censorship system that federal court called perfectly orwellian. griff: you think that this is going to continue to be looked at with the incoming trump administration? >> i think doge is going to take a very hard look at this and clamp down on this kind of spending. a good example is when you think back to the covid days, particularly in the early days, there were a lot of concerns that putting maxes on todaylers -- masks on todaylers, particularly with developmental issues, speech impairments was going the set them back, and those concerns were described at mess information at the time. and we -- misinformation at the time. and we now know, in fact, some of those policies did cause additional developmental delays and issues. so parents dealing with those struggle, the last thing they need is a government bureaucrat or a tech company telling them they can't voice co

jonathan turley with this. >> then he has to deal with the sentencing question. you have district attorney bragg saying maybe we should just leaf him in suspended animation for four years. that would leave the leash in the hands of judge merchan. i think many democrats would like that. they would like him to be this defendant in waiting for four years. it is a perfectly horrific idea. >> harris: and tleo terrell sai he is a nut, crazy, wrong and keeping this case to satisfy his ego. when this case gets on appeal, it is going the get reversed. the president-elect's federal election and classified documents cases have both been dismissed. his georgia election case has been paused and trump's attorneys have asked for that one to be dismissed as well. your reaction. >> all these cases against president trump are a gross miscarriage of justice, purely partisan. what democrats do is they attack their political opponents in any way, shape or form they can. i certainly do believe these things will be overturned. i hope all the people involved in this whether it's the dis

let's bring in constitutional law attorney, jonathan turley to discuss this with us.ake what we have seen over the last few minutes? >> well, we expect that there would be federal trials because of -- federal charges because of the interstate footprint of this crime. when we saw that he had fake i.d.es from other states, cross state lines, that became a federal matter as well as a state matter. by bringing these federal charges, he has subject, ultimately, potential death penalty. payee creates this dual trap which allows the federal prosecutors to take the faster track if that is what they decide to do. you joe to usually these type of dual traps or negotiations between the state and federal prosecutors where they get their best advantage in terms of time and charges. >> john: jonathan hunt paul mauro moments ago was talking about the counterterrorism or potential terrorism aspect of this. the state charge was balked up to murder 1 because of the terrorist statute. we talked with paul mauro about the idea alleged luigi mangione ted was true, he barely had no connecti

here's jonathan turley talking about this on his x post. has dismissed the first count on second-degree manslaughter and is allowing the jury to consider the second count after the weekend. this is the precisely what bragging was hoping for -- bragg was hoping for in setting up a possible compromise verdict with the allen charge. the prosecutors hope to pressure the jury into putting on the low standard of criminal negligence outside of new york or a few other cities, this case would likely either have not been brought or would have collapsed quickly before the jury. bragg often seems to be driven more by cable news than the criminal code. he has made clear that citizens acting to the protect others can expect little support from his office. if. charlie: so basically what alvin bragg is doing here is he doesn't have a case, so he comes up with a much heavier charge hoping that the jury will say, well, we don't want to go with that, so we're going to go with the lesser charge. and it's kind of like the shiny object to. and the result is you

analyst jonathan turley wrote an article.r would no longer be president. the drop in value and art reflects not the value of art in the art market but really the fluctuating influence peddling a market what did you say? >> no question about it i think he is absolutely right. can you imagine if donald trump jody are painted it through a straw on a canvas it would sell it. >> tom: maybe. i might buy that. [applause] >> but i did read in this article that one of his pieces of artwork, and i use peace very carefully here. because it was like his own on the thing. >> tom: it looked like his own feces? >> he allegedly used his own feces which is like. whatever. >> very going to greg's house. right? >> tom: exactly. exactly. kat, hunter reportedly sold paintings to 10 people for $1.5 million. good value. >> it is almost as if what he was really selling was not the paintings. just like what a lot of people were saying this whole time that this is he is selling influence. like access to his father, access to power and influence in all

. >> sandra: jonathan turley had this to say earlier. >> very smart. >> sandra: he is.ew rage item this season is a pardon. everyone seems to want to be put on the naughty list. you are nobody in d.c. unless you were on that list. it is a curious thing. usually around this time people are fighting to get on the inaugural ball list, but we have people, including bill clinton, saying, well, how about hillary? you are talking about some pundits are saying you should give thousands of pardons, whole categories of people. >> sandra: interesting because the white house briefing is ongoing right now. my team is telling us one of the major questions is preemptive pardons and whether or not that discussion is being had. she says she doesn't want to get ahead of the president, which we have heard before, but you have to imagine that conversation is happening, case in point the clintons. >> i just love, i cannot wait for press conferences to begin with a sense of as i've told you over and over again before which means what i'm about to say you've heard already and it doesn't mean

confirmations last away beyond any presidential term or two they have a ton of impacts for jonatper jonathan turleyn this as well he called it the move abide by it and a disgrace he said the courts are overwhelmed by dockets of the parties without any resolution for years. 2004 the number of cases in district court pending for more than three years 18280 this year there's nearly 82000 cases that have been pending for more than three years. it takes a lot to get the case is moving. do you foresee may may be this effort being taken up again it's his second term but a new term for him. i could see this be taken up again judges are very important issue for both parties as we have discussed. mitch mcconnell was the one who wrote to the playbook for how to push through as many judges as possible in a single term. chuck schumer only recently surpassed that in a single term just a week or two ago. these are important positions like you said they are long-term both the parties have an interest in getting things through. if you look at this actual piece of legislation it was crafted in a bipartisan way not g

i want to bring in jonathan turley fox news contributor ant constitutional law attorney. that could be set and abused by the later presidents and possibly, sadly tarnish the reputation of president biden. when you become president, your role rol is to put the nation f. we have a president putting his family first after promising americans that he would not do so. >> that is right. this brings to mind the same type of familial action taken by bill clintonho who pardoned hisi brother and his final days of office. and it also shows a degree off contempt for the american people. this is a president who didn't simply lie about not everbu speaking to his son's business associates and never been in meetings with them how to bite you repeatedly to the american people when he was a candidate for reelection.he he w was asked repeatedly as he was about meeting his son's clients and tonight he would do that. he is now violated that pledge.a >> jonathan hunt, what you are absolutely right and i know you pointed out the sweetheart deali the big weekend show and we will be back with mor

fox news contributor jonathan turley joins us now to discuss.was a little taken back because after there was some disagreement on the first count for them to go over the weekend and come back i thought people would say a con labor relation indictment. but it seems like the jury was annoyed. >> well, you know, this was part of the plan for bragg, he was setting up for what is called a compromise verdict. you start out with this more serious offense. very few people thought he could stick that landing. but the idea is that i fracture the jury or they reject that count. and then you get them to compromise on the lesser count. and that seemed to be working when we heard this was a hung jury. then, over the weekend, it didn't work out that way. clearly, you know, a couple jurors how many were holding out. changed their mind. and fortunately the result is something that everyone can celebrate. but, really, this jury was speaking not just in terms of themselves but i think in terms of the city at large. at the end of this process. this was a very stron

. >> dana: bring in jonathan turley, a constitutional law attorney at george washington university andributor as well. he does everything and he comes on "america's newsroom" and we're glad for it. there is just the pardon of hunter, though, continues to have bad feelings that have come as a result of that you wrote about it. i want to play something for you from the former biden senior advisor anita dunn and have you respond. watch. >> had this pardon been done at the end of the term in the context of compassion the way many pardons will be done, i'm sure many commutations will be done would have been a different story. i do not agree with the way it was done or the timing and i don't agree frankly with the attack on the judicial system. >> dana: she is not a fan. >> no, it is still rather muted criticism. quite frankly it deserves something a bit stronger than that. it wasn't the timing, it was the fact he was using a presidential power to benefit not just his own family but himself because he pardoned for any crime that hunter may have committed over a decade including crimes that s

professor jonathan turley joins us now. is he right? is it dead almost? almost dead?ll, i think it might be. approaching that zombie state of living but dead. it depends on what the new prosecutor does. because even though this decision was based on the conduct of willis herself, any new prosecutor would have to decide whether and what to prosecute. in my view, this rico case against the president has been hopelessly flawed from the beginning. almost a rico version of six degrees from kevin bacon. they are tying all these individuals to trump with very little connections that most of us can see. i've never seen a rico case like that. so many prosecutors might seriously want this cup to pass from their lips and say we're not interested here. but the immediate impact of this decision is overwhelming in terms of willis herself. this court is basically saying that these cases are not supposed to be vanity projects. you were told by the lower court that you created this appearance of impropriety and the question for the court is why you didn't remove yourself. many of us s

elizabeth: that was jonathan turley questioning why the january 6th fbi inform minutes were not chargeds were arrested. joining us now, nypd inspector paul mauro. paul, it's great to see you. help us out here if you can. you're the expert here. the justice department inspector general confirmed there were no fbi workers in the january 6th crowd, but there were more than two dozen confidential human sources, 26 of them. 4 go into the capitol, they were not charged or prosecuted. the fbi assigned just 3 overall to be there. what is happening here? people are asking questions about. >> so let's make a distinction. you know, the fbi agents that would be undercover are distinct from the confidential human sources that they're talking about here which are essentially flips. they're people that they have some leverage on. ultimately, they do end up paying hem. that's the general routine because it's the most dependable way to keep people doing what you want. what's disturbing is the vast majority of them, over 20, went there at their own behest. that's not to 4:you -- how you run a source. you

jonathan turley, who is a conservative lawyer, a works with fox, has said this about this quote. in my view, cheney was acting as a member of congress in this matter. she had an institutional interest, if not a duty, to pursue witnesses. is he right? >> i mean, if you talk to people around liz cheney, they for the last few weeks, they've been speaking very confidently about essentially bring it on, donald trump, if you're really going to do this. we believe we have the law on our side. we believe we have the facts on our side. and she would have the money on her side to. i mean, the problem with these sort of prosecutions is they get very expensive for the people who are being targeted by them. i think liz cheney would have quite a bit of a legal defense fund. i think the thing to be concerned about is some of these people who are not brand names, who donald trump might go after for, you know, anybody who's listed in kash patel book as government gangsters, as being a government gangster, those people will be, i think, in the crosshairs. and that's something that they should be w

after news broke that the manslaughter charge was dismissed, legal expert jonathan turley posted on x that this is what d.a. alvin bragg actually wanted all along in setting up a possible compromise verdict. well, let's talk about that. and everything else. joining us now with more harvard law professor emeritus alan dershowitz and fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. gentlemen, thanks for joining me again tonight. important issues here we're facing gregg. i want to start with you. at first, i think at first blush that this dismissal of the manslaughter charge seems like good news, but to the point that this is what bragg perhaps wanted is what's interesting to me. can you explain that to the viewer? >> well, it is a partial victory for the defense that prosecutors threw in the towel on the top charge that they should never have brought. and then the judge dismissed it. but in doing so, judge wiley, i think, created what looks like reversible error so that if the jury convicts on the lesser charge next week, it would be overturned on appeal. why? because the judge contradicted his ow